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2 Kings 15:27 Explained in Context
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Verse 27. 27In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.
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Quick Meaning
This verse dates Pekah's accession and twenty-year reign.
Read It With
- 2 Kings 15:27–15:31
Read 2 Kings 15:27 within 2 Kings 15:27–15:31. Pekah continues royal evil, Tiglath-pileser takes northern cities and deports inhabitants, and Hoshea kills Pekah and succeeds him.
Why This Verse Appears Here
This verse dates Pekah's accession and twenty-year reign. This detail is necessary to the thought unit “Pekah loses northern territory and is killed,” but it is not the unit's whole claim.
Read 2 Kings 15:27–31 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Kings 15:27–15:31 forms one scene or regnal notice: Pekah continues royal evil, Tiglath-pileser takes northern cities and deports inhabitants, and Hoshea kills Pekah and succeeds him.
Verse 27. 27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.
Verse 28. 28 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
Verse 29. 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
Verse 30. 30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
Verse 31. 31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
What Remains True
This verse dates Pekah's accession and twenty-year reign. In the complete scene, that detail supports this larger account: Pekah continues royal evil, Tiglath-pileser takes northern cities and deports inhabitants, and Hoshea kills Pekah and succeeds him.
How It Can Shape Life
- When teaching 2 Kings 15:27, keep this contribution and 2 Kings 15:27–15:31 together. Deportation must not become a statistic or divine permission for forced displacement, and conquest does not establish ethnic superiority.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Kings 15:27–15:31, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Kings
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, royal formulas, clause relationships, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Kgs.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 15:27–15:31
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: 2 Kings with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: A unit-bounded translation comparison plus only the lexical, grammatical, textual, historical, or older-English notes actually printed for these verses; silence is not treated as evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible 2 Kings PDF, printed pp. 649–651, translation and translator notes for 15:27–15:31
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